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Hollywood would have never greenlighted this

posted 18 years ago by searcher17
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My buddies and I were watching this the other day when we came to the conclusion that Hollywood would have never greenlighted this script. The reason: A *gasp* chinese man actually has sex with a white girl in this movie. I mean, when was the last time you watched a Hollywood movie where you see an Asian male protagonist gets laid, period? I've never seen one.

We also joked how this is so wrong... there's like a gazillion people living in China. Someone must be humpin' and pumpin' over there.

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[–] mrkmansf 17 years ago

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[–] Madonna-whore 15 years ago

AGREED! Especially since the girl was very much underage and he was much older than her, this would've probably started a riot! In the end of the hollywood version, he probably would've gotten some horrible Karmic punishment for deflowering a white little girl!

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[–] XuDai 14 years ago

Don't think she was really white, but part Vietnamese because in France you have many mixed ethnicities, mostly vietnamese women + White men.

[–] Vellex 13 years ago

And she really wasn't underage, she was 18. Talking in legal terms, at least.

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[–] Madonna-whore 13 years ago

I meant the character, in the book and the movie, the girl was 15, while the man was like 27, which is a huge age difference. And pretty much the first time they see eachother (after meeting) they have sex.

The actress was actually 19 I think when making the film, but they did make her look very young.

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[–] Vellex 13 years ago

I was talking about the character too lol She says in the beginning of the movie that she was 18---BUT, I read somewhere on here from another user that she had said she aged at 18, not that she was 18. In that same scene, she suppossively then says that she is 15 and a half. I didn't hear it though x-/ So she was underage apparantly. And the man (character) was 32, which is worse for Hollywood than 27 lol.

And the actress had just turned 18 when they shot the film, but after all the post production it came out when she was 19. And YES, she looked very young in the film. I went through the whole thing thinking the character was 18, and I kept saying to myself that she looked even younger than that. Obviously, they were aiming for her to look 15. They did a good job; I wasn't too surprised when I read later that the character was actually 15.

And wow! I hadn't noticed your comment was almost a year old lol

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[–] Nakitaakita-1 14 years ago

I think the movie "The King and I" portrayed an Asian man and a white woman.
It was made I think in the 50's or 60's. I didn't look it up.
It stared Yule Brenner. i don't think he was of Asian heitage though LOL

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[–] SeisCinemaSeis 14 years ago

'L'amant' never would have been made under Hollywood's studio system. They simply just care too much about their puritanical "consumers".
However this movie could have been made as an Indy flick. Although I dunno if an Indy production could have raised the necessary funds to make a period-drama of this scope.
Luckyly europeans are not that prudish.

[–] j-boone78 14 years ago

"Luckyly europeans are not that prudish."

Right! Don't know what I'd do w/o European and Asian cinema. Hollywood has run out of ideas, and most movies made there are about the bottom line at the box office and not art. Indy films notwithstanding.

[–] A_Normal_Person 14 years ago

First off, it's not Hollywood that wouldn't have produce it, they just would never have gain much more of an audience of which recieved it well, even to this date. Also keep in mind that when this movie came out was about the same time MPAA was going through it's sort of third phase since the Hayes code. The 2nd generation MPAA I believe was reconstituted in 1989. Plus the fact that it would have probably gone right straight to VHS and then placed in the Adult only section where not everyone one would go looking for it, Also it would never have been carried by Blockbuster or any other such family video chain.

Secondly it wasn't a real big money earner to start with. See stats: Grossed: $4,899,194 (USA), Admissions: 3,156,124 (France), this really wasn't and isn't the high caliber of profit making that Hollywood is interested in.

Thirdly, Some U.S. producer(s) or director, parent lobbying group or organization would have screwed it all up somehow. Today's producers and their directors just don't have the nads to pull this type film off in the USA anymore, those days are left to the late 60s, early 70s. Thank god for Europeans and those Independent filmmakers.

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